Yusuké Y. Offhause

This work focuses on visual memory. I am interested here in the operation of the brain when it appeals to memory. We all always feel like remind us very well of one thing. But this is in my opinion false because there are a lot of losses in our memory and our brain distorts and reconstructs another image. I often wonder what forms remain in our memories. I model my hands of tourist architectures that I visited and that attracted me, reproduced according to my memory (without looking at pictures, photos, or drawings). The only plan that I can use is my memory. These small models do not look like not to the initial architectures. I realize at this point that there are many lags between my memory and what I saw. These are weird but I find them originals. Memory imperfection shows lag and ambiguity. What seems interesting to me here is that originality arises from a defect. By reproducing world-famous architectures, I would like to offer viewers to compromise with their own memories. These architectural models are created by my personal memory but this joins to a collective memory.

This minimalist work requires only clay and a memory like materials. This was ideal for the period of confinement. I reproduced these tourist monuments while waiting to go see them again one day, after the end of the pandemic.